“ The luckiest man in the world”
Scott Hutchinson
Art Guild Director
photo by Cindy Steele
~ by Bill Weaver
Visitors enjoy returning to Brown County. It has something to do with the romance of the place, the people that have called it their home. People like artists Carl Graf and Genevieve Goth Graf; V. J. Cariani and Marie Goth.
“ What amazes me about Marie Goth,” says Scott Hutchinson,“ is, when you look at all the decades that she painted, she continued to improve. She went from good to great. You have to admire that.”
Hutchinson was a third-grader living in Plainfield, Indiana when, one spring afternoon, his mother brought him to Brown County.“ I fell in love with the place,” he remembers. He returned often, eventually attending nearby Indiana University and settling into a job with the City of Bloomington Community and Family Resources Department.
Hutchinson worked with,“ about 40 different not-forprofit organizations a year for 10 years— 400 chances to get it right,” he smiles.“ I helped organizations when they were just getting started or when they had jumped off the track and needed some help with strategic planning, fund raising, grant writing, or board development.”
He brings this experience to the Brown County Art Guild where, last August, he accepted the position of executive director.“ Getting out in the community, forming partnerships, pursuing grant funding, creating a community of donors and interested volunteers— that’ s the kind of stuff I can help with,” he says.
The Guild— a branch of the original 1926 association of Brown
20 Our Brown County • March / April 2015